Events

Resilient by Design, Shore Up Marin, Marin City Community Services District and County of Marin invite you to an evening reception. Meet and mingle with the 10 teams selected for the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, your friends and your neighbors.

This is a great opportunity to informally ask internationally recognized experts your questions about climate adaptation, sea level rise, flooding, etc., and to share your vision for a Marin that has successfully adapted to sea level rise.

Light buffet dinner will be served. Learn about games used to envision solutions to sea level rise and climate impacts from their creators, including Marin County’s Game of Floods and others.

Every two years, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership brings a focus on the management and ecological health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. The State of the Estuary Conference showcases the latest information about the estuary’s changing watersheds, impacts from major stressors, recovery programs for species and habitats, and emerging challenges.

Henk Ovink, one of our Resilient by Design jurors, is a plenary speaker and members of our Executive Board and Research Advisory Committee will also be speaking.

This special edition of the Metro Talks series will feature three design experts participating in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, a collaborative research and design project to help make the Bay Area more resilient to the impacts of climate change including sea level rise and flooding.

This fall, our Design Team cohort will be touring different sites around the Bay shoreline. They will learn about current projects and challenges as well as potential sites to use in the Challenge. Our Design Team cohort will then prepare 3-5 Design Opportunities and publicly present them on November 15th. Join us to learn more about the Design Opportunities and how Teams are synthesizing information garnered during the research phase into innovative designs.

Please join Greenbelt Alliance in partnership with the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge for an expert panel and community conversation around poverty and climate resilience. We’ll explore several of the major factors behind increased poverty in our communities, examine its current effects on people and institutions, address future impacts of climate change in our communities, and examine some inspiring efforts to address the current and future needs of our low-income communities.

Please join us in unveiling and welcoming the 10 Design Teams that have been selected to participate in the Challenge and learn more from our community partners around the region and our plan for the Collaborative Research Phase.

The bay is a major amenity for our region, but its extensiveness also makes it daunting to anticipate and respond to sea level rise. A new regional design challenge launching this summer, Resilient by Design, will bring together Bay Area communities and designers to envision the resilient waterfronts of our future. Get a sneak peak at the design brief and join a discussion of what’s to come before the challenge concludes in the spring of 2018.

The Trump election, Brexit, and rising nationalism here and abroad have called many things into question, including how we situate the built environment in an overall field of priorities, and they come at a time when the social implications of design have been increasingly prominent. That rise has been predicated on a social democratic philosophy which suggests that the built environment is a public resource. Many public goods (e.g. clean air, clean water) already are under assault. Does the built environment require a new form of defense? If so, what is it?

Scholarships for attendance to this event based on financial need are available through the Curry Stone Foundation. Please email Taryn Turner taryn@currystonedesignprize.com

Curry Stone Design Prize is one of the most recognized social impact design awards, celebrating socially engaged practitioners and the influence and reach of design as a force for improving lives and strengthening communities.

This panel discussion is part of a series of conversations about the variety of responses to current social and political challenges, including individual expression, community organizing, scientific research, and place-based activism. earn how Resilient by Design is partnering with local residents and experts from the design community—including architects, engineers, and planners—to generate imaginative yet achievable approaches to making the Bay Area more resilient to future changes.

With earthquakes and climate change looming in the Bay Area’s future, local communities and organizations have been working together to launch the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge—a collaborative project to develop innovative solutions to threats like sea level rise, severe storms, flooding, and earthquake damage.

The project’s plans will also be mindful of other regional issues, such as housing, health, transportation, and economic disparities.

About the Speakers

Dwayne S. Marsh is the Deputy Director of Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE), a core program of Center for Social Inclusion. CSI’s mission is to catalyze communities, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all.

Amy Chester is the Managing Director of Rebuild by Design, the New York City program that inspired Resilient by Design. She has spent almost 20 years in urban affairs, municipal policy, community engagement, and real estate development.

Kiran Jain is the Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Oakland. She has experience in both the public and private sectors working on urban innovation and community development.

Robin Grossinger co-directs the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Resilient Landscapes Program, which studies how California landscapes have changed since European contact, in order to guide landscape-scale restoration strategies.